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Culture's sameness stops being a vibe and gets a named mechanism

The New York Times, Oct 31 · read the original

A piece tracing recommendation algorithms' hand in culture's flattening gives the everything-feels-the-same complaint an actual mechanism instead of a mood, arriving the same week taste is the coldest system in two separate domains.

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